Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SimSpace is an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Core UI team, responsible for setting frontend architecture and standards, leading complex UI initiatives, and mentoring other engineers. This role emphasizes hands-on technical leadership and collaboration with UX Designers and Product Managers.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior-most technical voice for SimSpace's core frontend, owning architecture decisions and the technical roadmap for shared UI systems
- Lead major frontend initiatives end to end—from requirements gathering and architecture design through delivery—setting clear goals, priorities, and technical direction
- Steward architectural decisions and manage technical and UX debt deliberately, balancing long-term health with delivery needs
- Define and enforce frontend technical standards for code health, performance, testing, and documentation
- Mentor Design Engineers and frontend engineers, modeling strong craft, collaboration, and pragmatism
- Design, build, extend, and maintain SimSpace's design system (e.g., Monorail) and higher-order component libraries, emphasizing consistency, accessibility, responsiveness, and performance
- Contribute directly and deeply to the code, ensuring shared systems stay aligned between design (Figma) and implementation (code, Storybook)
- Review and curate contributions from other engineers to shared UI libraries, maintaining high standards for UX quality and code health
- Act as a technical partner to UX Designers—providing feasibility feedback, implementation guidance, and UI engineering insight early in the design process
- Define, improve, and automate the workflows that turn design intent into production code efficiently and predictably
- Develop prototyping workflows that let UX research gather customer feedback and iterate on designs quickly
- Lead accessibility (a11y) best practices at the component and system level
- Define standards, documentation, and WCAG-aligned guidance that help engineers build accessible interfaces
- Identify gaps through testing and drive remediation across shared systems
- Identify and address UX and UI quality issues—visual inconsistencies, interaction gaps, and usability bugs—across the product
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure quality, performance, and adherence to standards
- Create documentation, examples, and internal talks that help frontend engineers use shared UI systems effectively, and support initiatives like theming, white-labeling, and design token strategy
- Lead UI-focused initiatives end to end, balancing ideal UX outcomes with delivery realities
Skills
- 8+ years of professional experience in frontend, UX, or design-adjacent engineering, including a track record of leading technical projects end to end
- Deep expertise in TypeScript and React—modern component patterns, state management, and performance—sufficient to set architectural direction for shared systems
- Experience building and maintaining design systems or shared UI libraries used by multiple teams
- Solid understanding of accessibility (a11y) standards and how to operationalize them in real-world interfaces
- Experience writing well-tested, well-documented UI code intended for reuse and scale
- Proven ability to collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and engineers across teams
- Experience with Storybook, design tokens, and Figma-to-code workflows
- Familiarity with frontend testing strategies (unit, visual, and accessibility testing)
- Experience with responsive design systems and theming or white-labeling approaches
- Experience with rapid UI prototyping and iterating against customer and UX research feedback
- Comfort working across the stack when needed (API integration, backend collaboration)
- Interest in emerging tools and workflows, including AI-assisted UI development and prototyping
- Experience bootstrapping services or libraries with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one!
- Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
- Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
- Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.
- Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success.
- Earn $1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program.
- Peloton Interactive Wellness Program: Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized wellness goals.
- Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.
- Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
- Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life’s details.
- Semi-flexible hours, with the expectation that you overlap the main part of the day to meet deadlines, collaborate with colleagues and attend key meetings.
Company Overview
SimSpace combines high-fidelity, military-grade cyber ranges and training content with unique user and adversary emulation techniques. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.simspace.com/.